War Paint

The lip-brush slid easily albeit slowly over her lips, leaving a glossy red film in its wake. She fought the urge to smack her lips as she exchanged the brush for another; instead she forced a smile. Meticulously, she darkened her eye-lids with a shade dubbed “midnight” and coated her lashes in a dark viscous mascara. Today, Ginny Weasley had a very important mission; convincing the world that she was a perfectly normal Hogwarts graduate. Though the only two men who would see past her farce, as far as she knew, were long dead—she applied a deceptively healthy blush.